The Problem of authority in America
edited by John P. Diggins and Mark E. Kann.
- Philadelphia Temple University Press 1981.
- x, 255 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Authority in America -- The three faces of authority / by John P. Diggins -- The idea of the state in America / by Sheldon Wolin -- Consent and authority in America / by Mark E. Kann -- Community or contract: William Faulkner and the dual legacy / by John H. Schaar -- Language as history: Ezra Pound's search for the authority of history / by Alfred Kazin -- Poetic tradition and authority / by William Arrowsmith -- The politics of narcissism / by Russell Jacoby -- The Oedipal riddle / by Jessica Benjamin -- By what-authority? / by Philip Rieff.